In a statement issued from Abuja yesterday, January 7, Yuguda asked Nigerians to be patient with Buhari.
Yuguda said: “What is happening today is like when you want a deep wound to heal quickly, you need to wash it thoroughly with the necessary disinfectants and chemicals. It pains as it bleeds. But the gain is actually in the pain especially where there is an assurance that what we are doing is right. It is only a temporary pain. This is the stage we are in the country now and it calls for deep patience and understanding of all citizens.”
The former governor noted that Buhari, who had the best intentions for the country was trying to make things work and he needs the people to be patient.
“Everybody has a critical role to play in the ongoing nation-building process including those who served in whatever capacity in the past. Our present political office holders need to accommodate the opinions of former public office holders for the collective benefit of the country. It is not everybody who once served that is corrupt. This mindset should change,” he said.
He also called on the authorities to clamp down on the activities of religious leaders who fan the embers of division.
Yuguda who governed Bauchi state between 2007 and 2015 rebuffed insinuations that all former governors were corrupt.
He stated that it was a wrong to assume all former governors were corrupt, saying: “On a very personal note, I did my best while in office but some misguided elements went on social media platforms to discredit me unjustly and ignorantly, accusing me of what I did not do. I leave them to Almighty Allah’s judgment. I served my people and my country to the best of my ability and conscience. I love my country. We have no other country we can call our own.”
The Bauchi state government recently accused Yuguda of squandering N91 billion security fund in eight years. This was disclosed was by the spokesman of Governor Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar, Yakubu Ibn Mohammed.
Mohammed stated that the former governor received the fund between 2007 and 2015 amounting to N91 billion and released the highest spending of over N17 billion in 2013
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